How did Helen Keller help others?
Helen Keller became an inspiration to those who would once have had no hope in life. Although she became deaf and blind as a result of contracting suspected scarlet fever before she was two years old, she went on to still accomplish a great deal. She was a very difficult child, given to tantrums, but the breakthrough for Helen Keller came when her teacher, Anne Sullivan, persisted with to make her understand that touching shapes and letters were her means to communication. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to graduate with a college degree, and ultimately published 14 books. She met every President of the United States from Calvin Coolidge to John F Kennedy, and wrote to eight Presidents of the United States, from Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, receiving letters from all of them.
